Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T219 |
0-71 |
Sentence |
denotes |
From a psychological perspective, anxiety and stress should be lowered. |
T220 |
72-130 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Believing a conspiracy theory is one way of lowering them. |
T221 |
131-294 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Anxiety may be particularly acute if it is caused by a major external event, which may be a natural disaster or a human-caused event, such as a terror attack [30]. |
T222 |
295-391 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Conspiracy theories functionally provide very simple causal explanations for distressful events. |
T223 |
392-525 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In other words, they help to control the level of acute stress and, thus, instill order, a sense of control, and predictability [47]. |
T224 |
526-656 |
Sentence |
denotes |
High-anxiety situations are therefore positively correlated with conspiracy theories about Jewish people, Germans, and Arabs [48]. |
T225 |
657-850 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Moreover, based on experimental studies in which participants were exposed to mock news articles, Radnitz and Underwood [49] show that an anxiety prime increases beliefs in conspiracy theories. |
T226 |
851-1002 |
Sentence |
denotes |
However, according to Swami et al. [47], state and trait anxiety and episodic tension are not significant predictors of beliefs in conspiracy theories. |